May 17, 1919 



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full of grit that it is not even worth 

 cooking. It was probably forms of the 

 Sand Pear crossed with one of the cul- 

 tivated garden pears which produced 

 the Leconte and Keiffer pears from 

 which much was at one time expected 

 in this country, especially in the south- 

 ern states, but which have proved so 

 susceptible to blight that the cultiva- 

 tion of these trees has been now large- 

 ly abandoned. The flowers of Pi/rus 

 ggrotina are larger than those of P. 

 Calleryana, but there is little beauty 

 in their small brown fruit; and the 

 habit of the tree with its long spread- 

 ing branches forming an open irregu- 

 lar head is not particularly attractive. 

 Of better habit is Pyrus serrulata, a 

 fast-growing tree with large flowers 

 which have been only sparingly pro- 

 duced in the Arboretum. The Chinese 

 form of Pyrus pashia raised from Wil- 

 son's seeds is also established in the 

 Arboretum where it is now flowering. 

 The Himalayan form of this tree was 

 first sent to Europe in 1825, but has 

 not been tried in the Arboretum where 

 it would probably not be hardy. In ad- 

 dition to the four pear trees from west- 

 ern China there are five other Chinese 

 species established here, P. ussuriensis, 

 the only pear tree of Korea and Man- 

 churia, and extending into northern 

 China and into Japan; P. Bretsch- 

 neideri, a northern, tree with juicy 

 yellow fruit of good flavor; P. ovoidea, 

 another northern species with yellow 

 fruit tapering from a broad base to a 

 narrow apex, and P. betulacfolia and 

 P. phococarpa, species with small 

 brown fruit, that of the latter globose 

 on some individuals and pyriform on 

 others. Taken as a whole the Chinese 

 pear trees make one of the interesting 

 groups in the Arboretum, and as early 

 spring flowering trees they take rank 

 with the crabapples, although the open 

 flowers, which are often tinged with 

 pink while in the bud, are white and 

 so lack the variety of colors which add 

 so much beauty to the flower buds and 

 flowers of the Asiatic crabapples. 



AMERICAN ROSE SOCIETY. 



A general meeting of the American 

 Rose Society will be held at the rose 

 gardens of Capt. George C. Thomas. 

 Jr., Sunset avenue, Chestnut Hill, Phil- 

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 of general interest to the society and 

 a further enlargement of the program 

 laid down at the annual meeting held 

 recently in New York City will be the 

 special program for this meeting and 

 several important developments are 

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PATENTS GRANTED. 



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